Metanoia: The Foundations of Change

May 8, 2025 | 8:00 am - 6:30 pm
May 8, 2025
8:00 am - 6:30 pm

Catholic University of America

METANOIA is an interdisciplinary gathering exploring the foundations of conversion and the nature of change.

METANOIA is the second annual conference of the Cluny Institute, an organization that invests in the human person through education, publications, experiences and ventures. By combining intellectual rigor, spiritual depth and artistic excellence, we are laying the groundwork for the renewal; a culture in which the human spirit is free to respond to its highest aspirations, changing the vector of innovation away from shallow things and toward an integral human ecology.

Our mission is the human person, fully alive.

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Event Schedule:

8:00a – 9:00a

Breakfast

9:00a – 9:30a

Opening Remarks

9:30a – 10:30a

The Architecture of Transformative Experience: What leads to substantial change?

Fr. Mark Roosien, Jennifer Paxton, Ben Hunt; Moderated by Luke Burgis

11:00a – 12:00p

Literary Conversion: How do art and literature change a person?

Ariana Reines, Michael Clune, Jordan Castro

12:00p – 1:00p

Lunch

1:15p – 1:45p

Special Event

2:00p – 2:30p

The Sensus Communis

Andrew McLuhan

3:00p – 3:15p

Keynote

L.M. Sacasas

3:15p – 4:15p

Revelation or Manipulation? How digital technologies create and destroy possibilities for change

L.M. Sacasas, Hollis Robbins, August Lamm

4:30p – 4:50p

Keynote

David Bentley Hart

5:00p – 6:30p

Closing Reception

Event
Speakers

David Bentley Hart

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Ariana Reines

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L.M. Sacasas

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August Lamm

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Michael Clune

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Fr. Mark Roosien

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